50 episodes
The Martial Brain Jeff Westfall
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The Martial Brain Podcast explores the intersection between the martial arts, scientific skepticism, critical thinking, and that wacky organ that floats between our ears. It is part of Jeff Westfall's effort to help lift the martial arts out of the quagmire of hundreds of years of magical thinking and misconception.
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235 The Forgotten War Part 24
Remember the words of Voltaire who said "anyone who can convince you of absurdities can get you to commit atrocities."
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234 The Forgotten War Part 23
The Pulahans arose from a specific cauldron of local grievances, traditional values, and foreign interference that so often gives rise to millennial movements.
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The Forgotten War Part 22
The story of the Pulahan War is a sad tale of exploitation visited on the poorest of the poor Filipinos, leading them down the rabbit hole of fanaticism
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The Forgotten War Part 21
The stories of these six regiments extend beyond the war in the Philippines.
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The Forgotten War Part 20
"I want to tell you that we are not bandits as the Americans have accused. but members of the revolutionary force that defended our mother country, the Philippines!"
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The Forgotten War Part 19
On May 6,1903, Makario Sakay proclaimed himself El Presidente Supremo of the "Tagolog Republic of the Philippines."
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